
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play William H Macy plays Jerry Lundegaard a Minneapolis car salesman who is by all accounts a loser He is desperately in debt so decides to hires two thugs (who are bigger losers than he is) to kidnap his wife in the hope that his wealthy father-in-law (who bullies him regularly) will pay the ransom When one of the kidnappers goes off the rails & events career out of control it falls to Marge Gunderson Chief of the Brainerd Police Department to set things right Arguably the best of the Coen brothers films (they won an Oscar for the script) featuring two of their best usual suspects Steve Buscemi & Frances Mc Dormand who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this role The film raked in a range of other prestigious & International Awards 36 in total
- including best direction at Cannes & David Lean Award for Direction at the 1997 BAFTA awards Actors Frances Mc Dormand William H Macy Steve Buscemi Peter Stormare & Harve Presnell Director Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Certificate 18 years & over Year 1996 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic ; Fullscreen Languages English ; French ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Croation ; Dutch ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; French ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players